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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

8. Storming the Ka`bah and the Subsequent
Bloodshed

The year in which he will emerge, people
will perform hajj together and gather with-
out an imam. The Hajjis will be looted, and
there will be a battle at Mina in which many

will be slain and blood will flow until it
runs over the Jamra al-'Aqaba. [Jamra: a
stone pillar representing Satan that is

stoned during the pilgrimage.] (Narrated by
`Amr ibn Shu`ayb, al-Hakim and Nu`aym
ibn Hammad)

People make pilgrimage without an imam leading them. Big
wars break out when they come down to Mina, and they are en-
twined just the way dogs entwine, and tribes attack each other.
This strife is so widespread that legs are buried in lakes of
blood. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi
Akhir az-Zaman, p. 35)

The phrase "the year in which he will emerge" draws attention to
a massacre that will occur on the date of the Mahdi's emergence. In
1979, a massacre very like this one occurred during the Ka`bah raid,
which took place during the pilgrimage month at the very beginning
of the period during which the signs of Mahdi's advent appeared –
the first day of the Islamic year 1400 (21 November 1979).
The hadiths also mention bloodshed. The killing of 30 people
during the clashes between Saudi soldiers and militants during the

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